# Posts being made as HTML comments by default?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/posts-being-made-as-html-comments-by-default/173403>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [December 15, 2020, 8:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/posts-being-made-as-html-comments-by-default/173403 "2020-12-15T20:20:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![teward](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/teward/32/148702_2.png) [@teward](https://meta.discourse.org/u/teward)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 8:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/posts-being-made-as-html-comments-by-default/173403/3 "2020-12-15T20:29:46Z")

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Nope, I figured out the problem. The core problem was some categories have a template created with an HTML comment block in them.

And the users are not told to post outside the comment block, and simply remove the “Please read the guidelines” content between the comment lines and write their ipost in there.

So it’s entirely a combination of **User Error** and **Staff Doing A Stupid**

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